{"id":9524,"date":"2021-04-30T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9524"},"modified":"2021-05-04T09:51:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T16:51:21","slug":"sars-cov-2-detection-on-self-collected-saliva-or-anterior-nasal-specimens-compared-with-healthcare-personnel-collected-nasopharyngeal-specimens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/30\/sars-cov-2-detection-on-self-collected-saliva-or-anterior-nasal-specimens-compared-with-healthcare-personnel-collected-nasopharyngeal-specimens\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Detection on Self-Collected Saliva or Anterior Nasal Specimens Compared with Healthcare Personnel-Collected Nasopharyngeal Specimens"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A study of 730 adults undergoing simultaneous nasopharyngeal (NPS), anterior nasal (ANS), and saliva specimen collection for SARS-CoV-2 testing found the sensitivity for saliva testing was 85% and sensitivity for ANS testing was 80%, which increased to 100% and 94%, respectively, among participants with culture-positive SARS-CoV-2 by any specimen type. Saliva (37%) and ANS (46%) testing were preferred by patients over NPS (13%), although a majority (87%) reported they would be willing to undergo an NPS collection in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marx et al. (Apr 2021). SARS-CoV-2 Detection on Self-Collected Saliva or Anterior Nasal Specimens Compared with Healthcare Personnel-Collected Nasopharyngeal Specimens. Clinical Infectious Diseases <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab330\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab330<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of 730 adults undergoing simultaneous nasopharyngeal (NPS), anterior nasal (ANS), and saliva specimen collection for SARS-CoV-2 testing found the sensitivity for saliva testing was 85% and sensitivity for ANS testing was 80%, which increased to 100% and 94%, respectively, among participants with culture-positive SARS-CoV-2 by any specimen type. Saliva (37%) and ANS (46%)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/30\/sars-cov-2-detection-on-self-collected-saliva-or-anterior-nasal-specimens-compared-with-healthcare-personnel-collected-nasopharyngeal-specimens\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9525,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions\/9525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}